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Global Warming May Have Severe Consequences for Rare Haleakalā Silversword Plants
January 15, 2013 — While the iconic Haleakala silversword plant made a strong recovery from early 20th-century threats, it has now entered a period of substantial climate-related decline. New research warns that global ... > full story -
Bugs Reveal the Richness of Species on Earth
January 11, 2013 — Researchers have carried out a survey of the biological diversity in a tropical rainforest. Their efforts have helped them find the key to one of the existential questions to which people have long ... > full story -
Bengali Forests Are Fading Away
January 10, 2013 — RAPID deterioration in mangrove health is occurring in the Sundarbans, resulting in as much as 200m of coast disappearing in a single ... > full story -
Invading Species Can Extinguish Native Plants Despite Recent Reports to the Contrary
January 9, 2013 — Evolutionary biologists have found that, given time, invading exotic plants will likely eliminate native plants growing in the wild despite recent reports to the contrary. A new study reports that ... > full story -
Low Extinction Rates Made California a Refuge for Diverse Plant Species
January 9, 2013 — The remarkable diversity of California's plant life is largely the result of low extinction rates over the past 45 million years, according to a new study. Although many new species have evolved in ... > full story -
Genetic Matchmaking Saves Endangered Frogs
January 8, 2013 — What if Noah got it wrong? What if he paired a male and a female animal thinking they were the same species, and then discovered they were not the same and could not produce offspring? As researchers ... > full story -
Giant Fossil Predator Provides Insights Into the Rise of Modern Marine Ecosystem Structures
January 7, 2013 — An international team of scientists has described a fossil marine predator measuring 8.6 meters in length (about 28 feet) recovered from the Nevada desert in 2010 as representing the first top ... > full story -
Biologists Unlock 'Black Box' to Underground World: How Tiny Microbes Make Life Easier for Humans
January 3, 2013 — Biologists have unlocked the "black box" to the underground world home to billions of microscopic creatures. That first peek inside may well explain how the number of species in an ecosystem changes ... > full story -
Egg-Laying Mammal: Scientists Discover That for Australia the Long-Beaked Echidna May Not Be a Thing of the Past
January 2, 2013 — The western long-beaked echidna, one of the world's five egg-laying species of mammal, became extinct in Australia thousands of years ago... or did it? Scientists have found evidence suggesting that ... > full story -
A New Fish Species from Lake Victoria Named in Honor of the Author of Darwin's Dreampond
January 2, 2013 — A newly described cichlid species from Lake Victoria is named in honor of Tijs Goldschmidt, author of the book Darwin's Dreampond. The species was discovered by him and colleagues in 1985. It is ... > full story
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